I am deeply concerned by the most recent news that Rebecca Robinson has resigned from the position of South San Independent School District superintendent. She presented a dynamic program of her intentions and accomplishments for the school district at a local community meeting earlier this year. For once, we had hope that the district would go forward and progress.

Alas, all to good to be true. Back to square one with infighting and backroom deals.

It seems that your writers are determined to undermine and destroy the promising career of a gifted, young football player, Johnny Manziel — Johnny Football. Delving into his life and reporting every little thing that you think is newsworthy is disgusting and destructive.

How about scrutinizing — and magnifying — everything in the lives of your reporters, then publishing every little thing they have done in error or even in a temporary lapse of judgment?

A modern-day Rip Van Winkle who had been asleep for 50 years could awaken today and, upon reading a current edition of the Express-News, think he's still back in the early 1960s. He'd see news stories about a black teenager being stalked and shot dead with the white shooter walking away scot-free.

He'd read how the Texas Legislature has made it necessary for many women to rely on shady back-alley abortions, and he'd learn that several states are still erecting clever, targeted barriers to suppress the vote of “certain people.”

Ah, the good ol' days.

Bill Celaya

Right on Trayvon

Re: “Trayvon had no chance against racism,” Eugene Robinson, Other Views, July 17:

George Farias says he cannot recall a passage of the Bible that condemns homosexuality.

I would like to help him. St. Paul does so in his letter to the Romans, 1:26-27. After he condemns those who follow false gods, he says, “For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error.”

St. Paul is on par with the Twelve Apostles as a faithful interpreter of Christ's teachings.

What seems to be happening in today's society is that those who insist the active gays have a right to marry want to take away the Christians' right to free speech when we object to what we consider immoral behavior.

They consider us bigoted.

How can this be when we applaud homosexuals who live a chaste life?

If they insist on gay rights, let them also insist on the right to free speech.